After witnessing fire disasters in neighboring counties, Marin formed a unique fire prevention authority and taxpayers funded it. Thirty projects and three years later, the county is clearer of undergrowth.

BCDC’s Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan lays out four “Minimum Standards” that Bay Area municipalities must meet as they prepare for sea level rise.

Climate anxiety in younger generations is on the rise across the globe. Google searches for “climate anxiety” soared by 565% in 2021.

Francesca Pedraza y Rise South City están instalando monitores de calidad del aire para ver cómo las avenidas que atraviesan South San Francisco afectan la salud de las comunidades latinas. Midiendo los niveles de contaminación y limpiando un arroyo local, esta organización está transformando los barrios de primera línea, aquellos más afectados por el cambio climático.

Can the Miyawaki tree-planting method reduce urban heat and enhance biodiversity in the Bay Area?

Francesca Pedraza and Julio Garcia are installing air quality monitors and cleaning a local creek, bringing change to frontline neighborhoods.

From pumas to newts to humans, Bay Area residents are benefiting from new road crossing projects in Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, and Alameda.

My landscape maintenance company has a front row seat to how climate change is changing Bay Area gardens. Here’s what a water-wise garden looks like.

The California Coastal Commission has updated their Sea Level Rise Policy Guidance with new Senate Bill 272 guidelines and more certainty about near-term sea level rise.

Oakland plans three main resilience hubs. Activists say funding a more decentralized network could be more equitable.

Contrary to now popular hearsay, building a seawall won’t necessarily flood your unprotected neighbors along the bayshore.

Three million + cubic yards of tunnel muck from a subway extension could help raise South Bay marshes above rising sea levels.

After witnessing fire disasters in neighboring counties, Marin formed a unique fire prevention authority and taxpayers funded it. Thirty projects and three years later, the county is clearer of undergrowth.

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There are few trees and public spaces where residents can escape the unrelenting heat in the eastern Coachella Valley. A master plan for shade equity aims to change that.

New construction projects supported by federal emergency funding must be built to withstand extreme floods, including anticipated rise in sea level.

Seven Bay Area agencies sign an agreement to beef up coordination on sea level rise adaptation projects and clarify who’s on first.

As a community of nature-minded, eco-friendly folks, Santa Cruz has been working on climate adaptation plans for many decades. But no one anticipated the storms of early 2023.

KneeDeep revisits some of our most thought-provoking stories about how we experience hot weather and fire season, and what local communities and governments are doing to protect us from impacts.

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